[systemd-devel] [PATCH] vconsole: properly set terminal UTF-8 mode

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 15:35, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> We cannot assume terminal is in UTF-8 (actually, unless
>> setup by initrd it likely is not). Properly set requested
>> mode. This avoids errors similar to
>
> Why isn't it utf8 by default?
>
> That should have been changed long ago:
>  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/7/37
>

Actually it was reset to non-UTF8 by systemd-vconsole-setup :p

It is rather interesting. I was testing unrelated patch for dracut
using dracut tip. It turned out, dracut now installs
systemd-vconsole-setup when available. Unfortunately it also also
changed parsing of configuration files so no locale config was
installed. Which caused vconsole-setup assume we are in non-UNICODE
mode and disable it.

I still believe we should not make any assumption about console state
at the time of systemd startup and ensure it is configured as
requested.